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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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Israel to destroy seven nations of Canaan—Marriages with them are forbidden lest apostasy result—Israel has a mission as a holy and chosen people—The Lord shows mercy unto those who love him and keep his commandments—He promises to remove sickness from Israel if they hearken.
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When</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 20: 23.">nations</a> greater and mightier than thou;
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And when the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, <i>and</i> utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 34; Josh. 6: 21; Josh. 9: 24.">destroy</a> them; thou shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 5: 57.">make</a> no <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 32 (31-33).">covenant</a> with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
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Neither shalt thou make <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith; TG Marriage, Temporal.">marriages</a> with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
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For they will <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">turn</a> away thy son from following me, that they may <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 6: 13 (13-15); D&C 4: 2.">serve</a> other gods: so will the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">anger</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
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But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 13.">destroy</a> their altars, and break down their <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/5b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB pillars; TG Idolatry.">images</a>, and cut down their <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/5c" mark="c" type="Q" title="HEB asherim; i.e. fertility deities; Judg. 6: 25.">groves</a>, and burn their graven images with fire.
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For thou <i>art</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR a nation consecrated to.">an</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezra 9: 2; Isa. 63: 18.">holy</a> people unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Blessings of; TG Israel, Mission of.">chosen</a> thee to be a <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/7/6d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Peculiar People; TG Separation.">special</a> people unto himself, above all people that <i>are</i> upon the face of the earth.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye <i>were</i> the fewest of all people:
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But because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Love of; TG Love.">loved</a> you, and because he would keep the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Covenants; TG Oaths.">oath</a> which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> brought you out with a mighty hand, and <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 107: 2.">redeemed</a> you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Know therefore that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, he <i>is</i> God, the faithful God, which <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 23; Neh. 1: 5; Neh. 9: 32; Dan. 9: 4.">keepeth</a> covenant and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Mercy of.">mercy</a> with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">repayeth</a> them that hate him to their face, to <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 35 (32-38).">destroy</a> them: he will not be slack to him that <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hateth</a> him, he will repay him to his face.
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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB ordinances.">judgments</a>, which I <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Duty.">command</a> thee this day, to do them.
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&#182; Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">hearken</a> to these <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Sam. 22: 23.">judgments</a>, and keep, and do them, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall keep unto thee the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 11: 5.">covenant</a> and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
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And he will <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Love of.">love</a> thee, and bless thee, and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">multiply</a> thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/7/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 8.">fruit</a> of thy land, thy <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/7/13d" mark="d" type="P" title="HEB grain.">corn</a>, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Barrenness.">barren</a> among you, or among your cattle.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will take away from thee all <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sickness.">sickness</a>, and will put none of the evil <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 26.">diseases</a> of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all <i>them</i> that hate thee.
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And thou shalt consume all the people which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 35 (33-36).">gods</a>; for that <i>will be</i> a snare unto thee.
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If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations <i>are</i> more than I; how can I dispossess them?
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Thou shalt not be afraid of them: <i>but</i> shalt well remember what the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
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The great <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/19a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB trials; TG Test, Try, Prove.">temptations</a> which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 29: 3.">wonders</a>, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God brought thee out: so shall the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
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Moreover the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
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Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <i>is</i> among you, a mighty God and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/21a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR awesome; Ps. 47: 2.">terrible</a>.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 29 (27-30).">put</a> out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/22b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB wild animals become too numerous for you.">beasts</a> of the field increase upon thee.
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But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/7/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 29.">deliver</a> them unto thee, and shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/7/23b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB throw them into great tumults.">destroy</a> them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
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And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold <i>that is</i> on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it <i>is</i> an abomination to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: <i>but</i> thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it <i>is</i> a cursed thing.
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